OSHA Accident Investigation · Summary #14518120

ELECTRICAL,ELECTROCUTED,RUNWAY CONDUCTOR,LOCKOUT,UNGUARDED LIVE PARTS,E C,UNTRAINED

1986-08-18T00:00:00

Event: ELECTRICAL,ELECTROCUTED,RUNWAY CONDUCTOR,LOCKOUT,UNGUARDED LIVE PARTS,E C,UNTRAINED
Linked inspection: No inspection record linked to this accident's victims.
Summary number: 14518120
Report ID: 419700

Event description

ELECTRIC SHOCK - DIRECT CONTACT WITH RUNWAY CONDUCTORS

Investigation abstract

AN EMPLOYEE WAS REMOVING ASBESTOS INSULATION FROM DUCTWORK. THIS WORK WAS BEING PERFORMED IN A BUILDING THAT WAS TO BE DEMOLISHED AFTER ALL THE ASBESTOS WAS REM OVED. SOME 480-VOLT CRANE RUNWAY CONDUCTORS HAD BEEN INSTALLED NEAR THE WORK LOC ATION. THESE CONDUCTORS WERE EXPOSED AND WERE STILL ENERGIZED. THE EMPLOYEE WAS ELECTROCUTED WHEN HE REACHED OVER AN I-BEAM AND CONTACTED THE RUNWAY CONDUCTORS.

Victim

#1 Fatality Age 37 M

Nature of injury
10

Part of body
12

Event type
14

Source
15

Occupation code
999

Human factor
13

Environmental factor
13

Task assigned
1

Codes shown verbatim from OSHA's accident-investigation database. A human-readable decoder is coming in a future release once the accident_lookup2 dictionary is loaded.